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vendable

vendable

6.8
Can be sold in shops
  • adjective
  • /ˈvɛndəbl/
translation icon : vendible
  • With its unique flavor and attractive packaging, the artisanal chocolate is very vendable at local markets.

Examples

  • The new smartphone model is highly vendable due to its sleek design and innovative features.

  • The artist's paintings are vendable in galleries across the city, attracting many collectors.

  • By rerouting a form of media that had once depended upon the public circulation of her body—the marketing in print of a well-known courtesan—she transformed herself from an object, a vendable figure of social exchange, into an agent of her own commodification.

    Academic text (2016)

Synonyms

marketable
vsvendable
25 3.8

Able to be sold because many people want it

focuses only on being fit to be offered, not claiming demand
tradable
vsvendable
3 3.7

Can be bought or sold

is about being fit to be offered for sale, not about exchange possibilities
sellable
vsvendable
3 3.1

Good enough for people to want to buy

is the same idea but expressed with a different word form
salable
vsvendable
2 4.0

Can be sold

is the same sale suitability but uses a different lexical variant
purchasable
vsvendable
1 2.8

Available to buy

focuses on suitability to be offered for sale rather than the act of buying
vendible
vsvendable
  • Specialized
8.9

People can sell it in shops and markets

is the same meaning but uses the other spelling or form
merchantable
vsvendable
  • Formal
6.9

Good enough in quality to be sold

is a general fit for sale sense without the legal or commercial emphasis

Antonyms

1 6.1

Hard to sell because buyers do not want it

How Marketable

marketable
25 3.8
vendable
6.8
unsalable
6.5

Surface Forms

vendable positive
vendabler comparative
vendablest superlative

Morphology

vendable = vend (transparent) = vend + able

Formed regularly from the verb 'vend' + suffix '-able', so the meaning 'fit to be sold' follows directly from the base verb.

Etymology

Vendable comes from the old Latin verb vendere, meaning 'to sell', plus the ending -able, meaning 'can be'. So, just like a vendor or a vending machine sells things, something vendable is 'able to be sold' or fit for sale.